I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the canonical causes that make it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was manoeuvre and killed by assassins as he was about to address a rally in New York City; he was 39. on Malcolm X "Consigning these mortal clay to earth, the common mother of all, firm in the knowledge that what we place in the ground is no more now a man – but a seed which, after the spend of our discontent, will come forth again to meet us. And we will know him and then for what he was and is – a Prince, our own black shining Prince! – who didn’t hesitate to die, because he loved us so."–Ossie Davis' eulogy at Malcolm X's funeral in Harlem, February 27, 1965.